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If you like 476 tasteless pages of explicit gore and degenerate filth with no plot line, then this book is for you.
I had high hopes for this book because I grew up loving James M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and also re-tellings of fairytales and classic stories. When I read the excerpt on amazon.com, I started to get a little wary. But still, I thought it would be worth a try.
Not so.
This book is just sadism and excessive violence from beginning to end. I'm not being girly or sensitive or a prude when I ...more
I had high hopes for this book because I grew up loving James M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and also re-tellings of fairytales and classic stories. When I read the excerpt on amazon.com, I started to get a little wary. But still, I thought it would be worth a try.
Not so.
This book is just sadism and excessive violence from beginning to end. I'm not being girly or sensitive or a prude when I ...more
I've never really liked Disney's Peter Pan. I enjoyed the Peter Pan ride at Disney World, but the movie never did it for me. While I've read Barrie's work and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is one of the first books I owned, I've never really been a huge fan for some reason.
Brom's Child Thief is a return to a Dark Peter Pan, something that Brom admits in his afterword. I think it works far better than the Disney version.
Brom manages to capture the charm of Pan while drawing from the changling m ...more
Brom's Child Thief is a return to a Dark Peter Pan, something that Brom admits in his afterword. I think it works far better than the Disney version.
Brom manages to capture the charm of Pan while drawing from the changling m ...more
This dark and sinister retelling of Peter Pan is sprinkled with glimmers of hope and sparkles. It tackles heavy issues including hate, preconceived notions, and abuse while exploring the seedy underside of what happens to runaways and children fighting the wars of those who came before them.
The illustrations included in the book are simply magnificent and add to the visuals of the story masterly crafted within my own mind.
Perhaps the hardest part of the read for me was making it through the "bat ...more
The illustrations included in the book are simply magnificent and add to the visuals of the story masterly crafted within my own mind.
Perhaps the hardest part of the read for me was making it through the "bat ...more
This is a wonderfully dark reimagining of Peter Pan, with the Fair Folk present, and a slightly distracting (in my opinion) name of Avalon thrown in for good measure. Definitely not a children's book!
Brom created a wonderfully magical and realistic fantasy world (can I use "realistic" and "fantasy" in the same sentence?) where he respects the need for balance both in his characterization of the land as a whole and, more obviously, the three Avalonian (?) siblings who were originally charged with ...more
Brom created a wonderfully magical and realistic fantasy world (can I use "realistic" and "fantasy" in the same sentence?) where he respects the need for balance both in his characterization of the land as a whole and, more obviously, the three Avalonian (?) siblings who were originally charged with ...more
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